Tripoli, The Supreme Council of State confirmed that it had proposed postponing the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for this month, to February 2022, due to “the blockage facing the electoral process.”
The second deputy head of the Supreme Council of State, Omar Bushah, said in an interview with the Russian agency “Sputnik” today, Saturday, that “the aim of the initiative, at this time, is the blockage facing the electoral process, which we warned about in the State Council some time ago, because The elections were not built on correct constitutional and legal foundations.”
Bushah added, “Therefore, we believe that the process is vulnerable to collapse, which will negatively affect the stability of the country… The initiative is presented to all national political parties that sense the danger of the stage, and what it will lead to in light of the election of one person with wide powers without a constitution.”
He added that “there are among the presidential candidates, rejected and controversial personalities, and personalities wanted by the national judiciary and international courts… All these circumstances raise the alarm and holds everyone responsible for the circumstances and conditions that may lead to the country.”
Bushah indicated that the Electoral Commission is facing challenges, and it “now cannot announce the final list of candidates in addition to challenging the judiciary, the battle of appeals and the possibility of holding the ballot in light of the presence of figures who have criminalized the Libyans among the candidates, and every day new challenges appear.”
He concluded, “But from our point of view, the most important challenge is the outcome of the elections, and will it actually achieve stability in the absence of any constitutional rule regulating the work of the next phase?”
Source: Libyan News Agency